Beatles: Rock Band: Review Round-up

As you may already know, The Beatles: Rock Band launches today. It’s probably the first really massive release of this fall, and in the next few weeks you’ll have a ton of downloadable songs to look forward to. But will you be playing it Eight Days a Week, or is there Something about it that doesn’t quite Come Together? Let’s find out, With a Little Help from My Friends these reviews:

IGN (full review here) envisages the game appealing to both serious and casual Beatles fans. Doesn’t that cover… everybody?:

“The Beatles: Rock Band isn’t for everyone. Like, say, people who don’t care about The Beatles. If that’s you, then move along. For those who have a love or even just a fondness for the Fab Four, Harmonix has created a fantastic tribute. It won’t teach you the full history of the world’s most celebrated band nor give you even a quarter of their extraordinary catalogue of music, but it’s still great.“
90%

Eurogamer (full review here) published a review that mostly read like a love-letter to the band, but got to the point eventually. The point being: it’s ace:

“Beatles fans will have their own highlights from the game. Mine is the 45th and final track of the game, “The End”, also the final track on Abbey Road, the final album recorded by the greatest band in history. It’s the unimprovable climax to an astonishing career, with Paul, John and George trading riffs before the final swooning couplet, encapsulating the Beatles’ philosophy, melts into lilting strings that leave you unsure whether to laugh or cry.”
9 out of 10

GameDaily (full review here) proclaimed the title a landmark:

“Of course, The Beatles are worth every penny, especially for fans of the Fab Four. This game delivers one of the most phenomenal music experiences, outside of hopping into a time machine and watching them perform live, we’re likely to see during this phase of our digital age.”
9 out of 10

1UP (full review here), in a moment of sobering reality, gave the game a good-but-not-great mark of B, arguing that Beatles: Rock Band doesn’t do the necessary legwork:

“Rock Band Beatles is an excellent tribute to the band; if any group deserves to stand in the limelight of their own game, it’s The Beatles. But affixing “Rock Band” to the title leads to certain expectations — as a Rock Band player who still gets plenty of use out of Rock Band 2 and its ever-expanding setlist, I feel a little cheated that none of these songs are available online for the other Rock Band games.”
B grade

The End.

[Via Metacritic]